Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, another American neighbor turned on him. Guatemala refused to accept the ambassador proposed by Trujillo, formally broke relations with the Dominican Republic. Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, who never forgets that his country got rid of its own dictator, General Jorge Ubico, in 1944, pointed a democratic finger of scorn. Trujillo, he said, had corrupted "republican practices into monarchical practices." With rigged elections like last May's, he added, Dictator Trujillo could rule "for the next four centuries...
Life with Olla. Papa Eskelund's real affairs are told in this book, prised out of him by his son Karl, with the help of some good stiff drinks of a Guatemalan liquor called olla. As the story of a wayward parent, My Danish Father is a lineal descendant of the family-chronicle light biography (Papa Was a Preacher; Mother Wore Tights). Son Karl, a lanky, amiable onetime United Press correspondent in China, made the best-seller lists 18 months ago with a variation on the theme called My Chinese Wife. In My Danish Father, he has mixed...
Last week, tending his coffee plants in the shade of the banana trees, the average Guatemalan peon knew little enough of these facts. True, he had not seen a blond, German-speaking finquero in years, but the finquero had lived in Guatemala City and Juanito had seldom seen him anyway. More money jingled in Juanito's pocket (his wages were recently hiked from 5? to 50? a day), but higher prices had just about canceled out the raise. He had heard that model government houses, of cement and adobe, might soon be built on his finca. But his boss...
...last year in Leon, where trigger-happy soldiers killed 27 citizens demonstrating against a municipal government that had been "imposed" by bosses. Nationwide indignation drove the governor and mayor from office. Fire blazed again on New Year's Eve when police killed ten demonstrators at Tapachula. on the Guatemalan frontier. There the governor took hasty leave of absence...
...recent C.T.A.L. conference in Costa Rica, he put over a program favoring protective tariffs for new national industries such as Mexico is developing. And in a speech at Tapachula in October he warned Guatemalan laborites against class warfare orators of the extreme left. "Our tactic is that of national unity," he proclaimed...